The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit civil liberties organization based in San Francisco, is seeking a full-time programmer to help build web applications that protect and promote civil liberties in the digital world. The Web Developer will be responsible for improving and maintaining EFF's existing websites, creating new activism campaign sites and web projects, writing code to integrate with our CiviCRM database, and making sure things scale when our campaigns go viral. We'll also be counting on your creative ideas for future web projects.
EFF's web projects include content-oriented sites like EFF.org and Surveillance Self-Defense; activism campaign sites like the Open Wireless Movement, Defend Innovation, and Jailbreaking Is Not a Crime; our growing online database of FOIA documents; traffic-heavy petitions that fight legislation like SOPA and CISPA; cutting-edge, creative tools for Internet users to take action for digital rights you'll develop for EFF's new Action Center; and web-centric liberty-enhancing projects like Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere and the SSL Observatory. You'll have opportunities to build new free software for the open web and contribute patches to existing software that we rely on.
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This is a full-time position based in EFF's office in San Francisco, CA. Salary is negotiable depending on experience, and includes an excellent benefits package. To apply, send a cover letter and your resume with links to some samples of your work to techjobs@eff.org. Please send these materials in a non-proprietary format. No phone calls please.
https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/web-developer-hypertext-hacker